User rights
| The following collapsed information applies to stewards and system administrators only. |
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Unrestricted technical access to add and remove user rights. Follow the guidance below for Stewards. If someone is a new system administrator, have them email an SSH public key to you, upload the key to the server, create a Linux account on the server with sudo access for them (use sudo adduser username and sudo usermod -aG sudo username), and attach the key to the account. You may first grant the user group before doing so.
Access to add and remove the following user groups: Abuse filter administrators, Users blocked from the abuse filter, Checkusers, Interface administrators,
Stewards, and Suppressors. |
- Bureaucrats
Add or remove the bot, election administrator, interwiki administrator, administrator and bureaucrat permissions.
| Appointing new administrators |
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To add a new administrator, type the username (without the User: namespace prefix) and select the appropriate rights. See also the user rights log. It's recommended to include a link to the user's request in the comment field (like this: [[Test Wiki:Request for permissions#newlyMintedAdmin]]). You should then mark the candidacy ([[TW:Request for permissions#newlyMintedAdmin]]) as successful by adding Remember to advise new sysops to translate MediaWiki on translatewiki.net and translate pages on Test Wiki if they are fluent in a language other than English. |
- Administrators
Add or remove autopatrolled users, users blocked from chat, chat moderators, confirmed users, patrollers and translation administrators.
To see recent rights changes, visit Special:Log/rights.
User rights log
- 03:42, 23 February 2026 AsamuraShiki talk contribs changed group membership for Whyiseverythingalreadyused: revoked autopatrolled, chat moderator, patroller and translation administrator; kept bureaucrat, election administrator, interwiki administrator and administrator unchanged (Remove redundant rights — all of them are already included in the administrator and bureaucrat user group rights.) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 03:34, 21 February 2026 Whyiseverythingalreadyused talk contribs changed group membership for Whyiseverythingalreadyused: granted election administrator and interwiki administrator; kept autopatrolled, bureaucrat, chat moderator, patroller, administrator and translation administrator unchanged
- 10:25, 20 February 2026 Bosco talk contribs changed group membership for Whyiseverythingalreadyused: granted bureaucrat; kept autopatrolled, chat moderator, patroller, administrator and translation administrator unchanged (Special:Permalink/72865) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 23:49, 15 February 2026 Whyiseverythingalreadyused talk contribs changed group membership for Whyiseverythingalreadyused: granted autopatrolled, chat moderator, patroller and translation administrator; kept administrator unchanged
- 11:03, 15 February 2026 Whyiseverythingalreadyused talk contribs changed group membership for Whyiseverythingalreadyused: revoked autopatrolled; kept administrator unchanged (Test done)
- 11:03, 15 February 2026 Whyiseverythingalreadyused talk contribs changed group membership for Whyiseverythingalreadyused: granted autopatrolled; kept administrator unchanged (Test)
- 16:35, 14 February 2026 Username talk contribs changed group membership for Whyiseverythingalreadyused: granted administrator (Requested.)